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Speed Up Your PC or Mac Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL http://www.howtogeek.com/210764/fix-file-in-use-deletion-errors-on-network-drives-by-disabling-windows-thumbnail-generation/ Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles http://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/why-i-am-unable-to-delete-some-files-in-windows-7/ and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek Fix "File In Use" Deletion Errors On Network Drives by Disabling Windows Thumbnail Generation Even though both Windows and its users have made the jump to the 21st century, there's still some lingering error message 1990s-era annoyances hiding out in the OS including Windows' tenacious desire to create thumbnail files (and then refusing to delete them). Read on as we solve the "File In Use" deletion error problem. What's the Problem? When you're tidying files, deleting older archives, or otherwise cleaning up after yourself it's not uncommon to run into the very annoying "File In Use" error message file error. The way the error crops up usually goes like this. You look at a folder, decide you no longer need said folder and its contents, but when you attempt to delete the folder you get an error message that looks like this. Windows will happily delete the contents of the folder but it won't delete the folder and the "Thumbs.db" file will persist. You can click "Try Again" all day and it won't budge. Yet if you move on in frustration and sort and purge more folders you'll find that you can then return and delete the original folder and the pesky Thumbs.db file inside. What gives? Windows has a very sensible policy that prevents the deletion of files currently in use by the operating system or an application. That's a great policy to have and, on its own, it rarely causes any issues. Unfortunately Windows also has another policy that all folders with visual media (image files and movies) should have a database of thumbnails to provide thumbnail images for the files if the user switches to any of the avai
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